At the peak of Horn & Hardart's automat empire, there were more than 40 locations throughout New York City. You won't find ...

Thomas M c Kean fell in love with the MetroCard over twenty-five years ago and never looked back. In this live, virtual talk ...

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Become a paid member to listen to this article The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished. Photo from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit ...

Maspeth is a residential community in Queens that few people outside of Queens or Brooklyn know about. Bordered by communities like Woodside, Sunnyside, Ridgewood, and Greenpoint, Maspeth is a rather ...

With the exception of the New York City Police Academy, there are no colleges in College Point — and there hasn’t been a college there in decades. This begs the question, why is the neighborhood ...

Strategically placed along the waterways surrounding New York City to warn of aquatic hazards, a collection of lighthouses ushers ships into New York Harbor, lighting the way for a safe passage into ...

When the original McKim, Mead and White designed Penn Station was demolished in 1963, not all of it was lost. There are many remnants from the 1910 building within the station itself and there is an ...

Gowanus is one of Brooklyn’s more eccentric neighborhoods, with a relatively younger crowd tucked into blocks of industrial properties. Amid former factories and abandoned buildings, there are art ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Red, white, and green banners strung up for the Feast of San Gennaro. However, in recent years, the neighborhood has begun to shrink, losing both ...

“Automats were right up there with the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden,” Kent L. Barwick, former president of the Municipal Art Society, lamented to the New York Times in 1991 when the ...

Driving, cycling, and walking are the only ways to get across the Brooklyn Bridge today, but for over half a century, trolley lines and elevated rail cars ran across the bridge. In the early 1900s, as ...